OTHER NEW ZEALAND BIG GAME 
r HE New Zealand Government and the Acclimatization Societies 
have not confined their attentions to red and fallow deer 
alone. Despite the difficulties encountered during the initial 
stages of acclimatizing different species they have successfully 
established other varieties. 
Fourteen or fifteen years ago moose were turned out in the 
forests on the west coast of the South Island. A few years later the Duke 
of Bedford sent out some Caucasian tur which were liberated in the vicinity 
of Mount Cook. Sambur have been turned out in the North Island and some 
Japanese deer near Rangitaiki, between Napier and Lake Taupo. Some 
Axis deer were introduced from India, and freed near Palmerston South. 
By 1907, however, they had all been shot out, a most disgraceful pro- 
ceeding. Mr T. E. Donne, an enthusiastic sportsman, secured a fine con- 
signment of animals about ten years ago from the United States. They 
included twenty wapiti, ten being a present from Mr Roosevelt, nineteen 
Virginian deer and five blacktail deer. The wapiti were turned out at the 
head of George Sound, one of the great forest-girt fiords, situated on the 
west coast of Otago. Here there exists a large area of country, over two 
million acres in extent, known as the Fiordland National Park. The 
Virginian deer were divided between the country at the head of Lake 
Wakatipu and the wooded hills of Stewart Island. The blacktail were 
liberated on the Kamianawa ranges between the east coast of the North 
Island and Lake Taupo. 
In 1907 the Emperor of Austria presented eight chamois to the 
Government of New Zealand, from the Austrian Tyrol. They were, I 
believe, liberated in the Southern Alps. All these species foreign to 
New Zealand have been strictly preserved of late years, at any rate 
nominally, though I hear on good authority that licences will be issued 
some time in the near future to kill a limited number of wapiti. Some 
very fine heads have been seen, equalling, according to accounts I have 
been given, the best North American wapiti heads. The country is very 
dense and the stalker would have to work hard to ensure getting a good 
trophy. 
There was some talk at one time of attempting to acclimatize some of 
the great Asiatic sheep, but such an outcry was raised by settlers, who 
feared they would interbreed with the domestic animals, that the idea was 
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